What is recorded here

Gallán was a six-foot white standing stone in County Cork, lost to breaking and removal before modern cameras arrived. It still haunts the boundary scrub, perhaps lying disabled beside a field fence, stripped of its vertical dignity. The land remembers the shape even when the stone forgets how to stand.

In uneven scrub beside townland boundary. Removed. May be stone (L 2.5m; 0.7m x 0.7m) now lying beside field fence. Recorded in OS Field Books of 1838 and 1840 as 'Cloughbawn "White Stone"...about 6 feet high' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 221). According to Bowman (1934, 250), 'Cloch Bhan' referred to c. 40 acres on SE of townland, in which stood the stone; he also noted standing stone as 'broken and removed'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. The name "White Stone" suggests possible local folklore or use in traditional practices.

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